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Brendan Shanahan met the Winnipeg Jets on Friday morning and the players are definitely on board with the direction the league is taking concerning player safety.

Shanahan, the new NHL czar of discipline, presented a video and then took questions during a 30-minute session.

“He’s got his ducks in a row, that’s for sure,” said Jets forward Tanner Glass. “He knows what he’s trying to do. It’s not always black and white but he acknowledges that and he’s pretty up front and good to us about what’s going to go and what’s not.

“It just shows the work that’s going in between the league and the players for how to make this better for both of us. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no better guy to do it. He’s got the respect of all the players and he comes in here and meets us face-to-face and man-to-man. There are some tough questions being posed of him, but he looks you right in the eye and tells you exactly what he thinks about it.”

“He basically had the same message as he’s been showing with his clips online where he’s had to give suspensions,” added Jets forward Kyle Wellwood. “That means a lot to the players.”

There have been plenty of suspensions handed out in the early part of the season in an effort to try and curb high and dirty hits and Glass believes adjustments are being made by the players.

“You’re never going to get to a point where guys aren’t getting injured and there aren’t suspensions, but I think judging by the games played lately, you see guys easy up in some places where they wouldn’t in the past,” said Glass. “There are still going to be some instances, but it’s pretty straight forward.”

The timing of the meeting was perfect, considering the Jets were on the receiving end of a couple of questionable hits on Monday night against the Florida Panthers.

The first saw Scottie Upshall deliver a shoulder to the head of Evander Kane, while the second saw Jack Skille check Jets defenceman Toby Enstrom to the head, though Enstrom was leaning over and put himself in a vulnerable position.

Jets head coach Claude Noel didn’t particularly like either hit, but appreciated the opportunity to get some clarification from Shanahan.

“I took a lot of good things out of it,” said Noel. “What he tried to do is bring a lot of clarity to the situation, to the rules situation. We had some questions and we used some of our own game examples and he did his best. I respect the fact that’s a really tough job.

“He did a wonderful job and our players embraced what he was saying to us. He’s been on the other side of the fence, so there’s a real respect factor there.”

The Jets are back in action on Saturday against the New Jersey Devils (6 p.m., CBC, TSN 1290).